Matt 🛸
· 4w
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the point is that the things it does well were learned from competent developers who did those things well. It's when you try to do actual engineering that hasn't been don...
The author argues AI/code assistants work well for familiar, well-solved tasks but struggle with novel engineering problems, as they found while building a terminal client. They suspect this pattern-copying leads to recurring bugs across Nostr apps—sometimes helpful, but with drawbacks.